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PRESCHOOL SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND MOVEMENT LESSON

January 2008

By Miss Terry and Miss Sharon

This month’s speech and language lessons will be based on the book The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. The hand rhyme will be The Little Snowman (see below). We will be acting out the book, making snowman pictures, pretending to walk through the woods and making footprints in pretend snow.   Please take time to join your child in one of these follow-up activities:

 Please take time to join your child in one of these follow-up activities:

1. Ask your child to tell you the story.
2. Tell your child a story about his/her earliest encounter with the snow or about one of your own adventures in the snow.
3. If and when the weather permits, play in the snow with your child.
4. Go to the library together and check out another book by Ezra Jack Keats (Apartment Three, Maggie and the Pirate, Peter's Chair). Read the book together.

VOCABULARY/CONCEPTS

                                                           

Nouns	Pronouns			Verbs	Adjectives			Adverbs	Positions
bed		another	Called			all	Along		About
Boys		Everything	Climbed			Big	Away		Across
Breakfast		He	Could			Deep	Before		Down
Crunch		His	Covered			Empty	Down		In
Dream		It	Dragged			Great	Enough		Into
Feet		She	Dreamed			High	Far		Of
Friend		Something	Fall/fell			New	In		Off
Fun		That	Felt			Old	Just		On
Head		Their	Found			Right	Not		Out
House		Them	Got			Round	Off		To
Morning		They	Had			Sad	On		Up
Climber			Join			Smiling	Out
Mountain			Knew			Tall	Slowly
Night			Looked			Warm	Still
Path			Make/made			wet	Together
Pocket			Pointing				Up
Snow			Pretended				Very
Snowman			Put				While
Snowball			Ran				yet
Snowsuit			See
Socks			Slept
Stick			Slid
Street			Thought
Sun			Told
Toes			Was/wasn't
Tomorrow			Went
Top			Woke
Track(s)			Would
Tree			took
Window

 

Other Motor and Language Skills:                          

auditory and visual attention	turn taking
auditory and visual sequential memory	complex & compound sentences
story retelling	function
labeling	various verb tenses
following directions	articles (a, an, the)
adjectives	plurals (regular and irregular)
phonemic awareness	word association and relationships
visual motor skills	pragmatic skills
self-awareness	predicting
Verbal problem solving	Wh-questions

I'm a Little Snowman

I'm a little snowman, short and fat.

Here are my buttons,

Here is my hat.

When the sun comes out,

Then I can't play.

I just slowly melt away